We left Ko Samui, getting on a boat then a coach to the train station. We caught the overnight sleeper train to Bangkok, which left at 6.30pm. The train starts with seats down either side, then later in the evening, the seats become one bed and the top bunk folds down from the ceiling, it is like a big dorm.We arrived early in the morning at a train station we couldn't find on the map. We grabbed a taxi to Khao Sahn Road, the backpackers haven and managed to find...

We spent my birthday in Krabi, where we spent the day around Krabi, went out for a meal then found a bar with a very good live cover band and had a few drinks with some people we met there. The next day we headed to Surat Thani, a transport hub for the area and booked a coach and boat to the island of Ko Samui. We thought we couldn't come to Thailand and not visit one of the islands. We stayed in a cheap bungalow on stits with only a cold shower, it is also where...

We left early yesterday, catching the ferry to Butterworth, then a coach up to Alor Setar. Arriving at the bus station we found out there weren't any direct buses to Kuala Perlis where we needed to get the boat to Thailand so we got a long distance taxi for the 1 hour drive to Kuala Perlis. We were probably ripped off but it saved us some hassle and still only cost a few pounds. The next few hours were a state of confusion as nobody spoke good English and couldn'...